How much compensation for a delayed UK to Italy flight?
£220 or £350 each, if you land 3 hours or more late
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Flights between the UK and Italy are about average for the 71 countries the UK flies to most for 3-hour delays.
- Flights a year
- 110,807
- Routes tracked
- 15
- Land 3 hours or more late
- 554 a year
Last 12 months, CAA data
What you're owed
£220 or £350each if you land 3 hours or more late
Italy isn't one distance from the UK, so what a 3-hour-plus delay pays depends on the route. Find your route below, or check your flight for an exact answer.
| Route | 3 hours or more pays |
|---|---|
| Heathrow → Rome (Fiumicino) | £220each |
| Heathrow → Milan (Linate) | £220each |
| London City → Milan (Linate) | £220each |
| Gatwick → Milan (Malpensa) | £220each |
| Heathrow → Venice | £220each |
| Stansted → Rome (Ciampino) | £220each |
| Gatwick → Rome (Fiumicino) | £220each |
| Stansted → Bergamo | £220each |
| Stansted → Venice | £220each |
| Stansted → Milan (Malpensa) | £220each |
| Heathrow → Bologna | £220each |
| Stansted → Pisa | £220each |
| Gatwick → Naples | £350each |
| Heathrow → Milan (Malpensa) | £220each |
| Gatwick → Verona Villafranca | £220each |
All 15 tracked UK ↔ Italy routes, sorted by yearly flight volume. Figures are each; the EU version of the law pays €250 or €400 for the same two bands.
The figure is payable only when the delay was within the airline's control. A technical fault, a crew shortage or a late inbound aircraft all count; genuinely extraordinary circumstances such as severe weather or an air traffic control restriction do not.
How bad is it
Do flights between the UK and Italy get delayed a lot?
Not especially. They're about average for the 71 countries the UK flies to most, with 0.5% of flights landing 3 hours or more late.
That works out at about 554 flights a year crossing the 3-hour line, which is the point the airline has to pay.
Flying home rather than out?
Coming back from Italy it's €250 or €400 each rather than £220 or £350 each, because departures from there fall under the EU version of the rules.
When is it worst?
June 2026, when flights between the UK and Italy ran an average of 25.2 minutes late.
See all the numbers for Italy
In the last 12 months, 110,807 flights operated between the UK and Italy: 69.9% ran within 15 minutes of schedule, and 0.5% were 3 hours or more late, roughly 554 flights' worth of eligible passengers in a year. The CAA's figures don't separate arrivals from departures, so this covers the corridor both ways.
Flights are landing on time more often than last year: 69.9% ran on time against 65.8% in the twelve months before, and the average delay fell from 19.3 to 16.6 minutes.
Flights (12mo)
110,807
On time
69.9%
▲ 4.1pts vs last year
Avg delay
16.6 min
▼ 2.7 min vs last year
3 hours or more late
0.5%
Cancelled
0.6%
Italy, month by month
Worst month: June 2026, averaging 25.2 minutes.
Busiest routes between the UK and Italy
| UK airport | Destination | 3 hours or more pays |
|---|---|---|
| Heathrow | Rome (Fiumicino) | £220each |
| Heathrow | Milan (Linate) | £220each |
| London City | Milan (Linate) | £220each |
| Gatwick | Milan (Malpensa) | £220each |
| Heathrow | Venice | £220each |
| Stansted | Rome (Ciampino) | £220each |
| Gatwick | Rome (Fiumicino) | £220each |
| Stansted | Bergamo | £220each |
| Stansted | Venice | £220each |
| Stansted | Milan (Malpensa) | £220each |
| Heathrow | Bologna | £220each |
| Stansted | Pisa | £220each |
| Gatwick | Naples | £350each |
| Heathrow | Milan (Malpensa) | £220each |
| Gatwick | Verona Villafranca | £220each |
Where you fly from
UK airports flying to Italy
| Airport | 3 hours or more late | Landed on time |
|---|---|---|
| Stansted | 0.5% | 67.1% |
| Heathrow | 0.3% | 76.4% |
| Gatwick | 0.6% | 68.9% |
| Manchester | 0.7% | 62.4% |
| London City | 0.3% | 77.8% |
| Luton | 0.6% | 67.2% |
| Edinburgh | 0.6% | 67.1% |
| Birmingham | 0.5% | 65.3% |
| Bristol | 0.8% | 71.4% |
| Glasgow | 0.8% | 74.0% |
| Newcastle | 0.3% | 75.7% |
| East Midlands International | 0.3% | 73.4% |
| Leeds Bradford | 1.2% | 76.7% |
| Liverpool (John Lennon) | 0.2% | 74.1% |
| Belfast International | 0.4% | 64.8% |
| Southend | <0.1% | 87.9% |
| Bournemouth | <0.1% | 85.2% |
| Belfast City (George Best) | 1.7% | 70.0% |
Who flies there
Airlines flying between the UK and Italy
| Airline | 3 hours or more late | Landed on time |
|---|---|---|
| Ryanair | 0.5% | 66.5% |
| British Airways | 0.4% | 74.9% |
| easyJet | 0.6% | 70.7% |
| Jet2.com | 0.7% | 66.4% |
| ITA Airways | 0.1% | 81.4% |
| Wizz Air | 0.7% | 64.9% |
| BA CityFlyer | 0.4% | 70.9% |
| Vueling Airlines | 0.3% | 70.4% |
| TUI Airways | 0.8% | 58.4% |
| Skyalps | 0.4% | 51.0% |
Your rights
Your rights on this corridor
Every flight leaving the UK for Italy is covered by UK law, whichever airline operates it. Flights the other way, landing in the UK from Italy, are covered too if a UK or EU airline operated them; a return flight on a non-UK, non-EU carrier falls outside it, though the Montreal Convention and Italy's own rules may still give you a claim. See the full breakdown on the 3-hour rule. Cancelled instead of delayed? Broadly the same amounts apply under different conditions. See cancelled flight compensation.
From our own tracking
Recent flights to and from Italy that ran late
Every flight between the airports we sweep and Italy that ran 3 hours or more late, or was cancelled, since August. Newest first, and only flights UK or EU rules cover. A cancelled row carries no figure because what it pays turns on the notice you were given. Flights leaving the UK show when they leave and when they land, each in local time. How late is counted from when they land. Amounts are per person on the booking (half on the longest flights that landed 3 to 4 hours late). Airlines can still dispute a claim by proving the cause was outside their control, so check yours for the real answer. We earn a fee if you claim through a Claim link.
British Airways
Milan → London Heathrow Airport
14 Oct · due 08:30
Ryanair
Pisa → London Stansted Airport
14 Oct · due 15:00
United Airlines
Rome → Newark Liberty International Airport
13 Oct · due 16:55
easyJet
Milan → London Gatwick Airport
13 Oct · due 19:25
Delta Air Lines
Naples → John F. Kennedy International Airport
12 Oct · due 14:29, landed 20:37
easyJet
Milan → Bristol Airport
12 Oct · due 12:45, landed 16:25
easyJet
Pisa → London Gatwick Airport
12 Oct · due 18:10, landed 21:20
Ryanair
Pisa → London Stansted Airport
12 Oct · due 15:00
Delta Air Lines
Rome → John F. Kennedy International Airport
11 Oct · due 14:07, landed 18:10
Wizz Air Malta
Rome → London Luton Airport
11 Oct · due 08:30, landed 12:08
easyJet
Bristol Airport → Milan
11 Oct · Leaves 06:35
Was due to land 09:40
easyJet
Milan → Bristol Airport
11 Oct · due 11:20
United Airlines
Milan → Newark Liberty International Airport
10 Oct · due 12:40, landed 18:16
easyJet
Naples → London Gatwick Airport
10 Oct · due 09:15
easyJet
London Gatwick Airport → Naples
9 Oct · Leaves 18:20
Was due to land 22:00
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Source: UK Civil Aviation Authority punctuality statistics, August 2025 to July 2026. Analysis by CheckFlightCompensation; the CAA is credited as the data source as its publication conditions require. Figures cover the 25 largest UK airports. Methodology and limitations.